The Calgary Flames have announced Ryan Huska as their new head coach.
Huska provides 11 seasons of bench experience as a head coach from the WHL and the AHL and over 20 years coaching in total, including knowledge gained as an assistant coach in Calgary for the past five seasons.
Huska has coached in the Flames organization since the 2014-15 season in which he was appointed head coach of the Flames’ American Hockey League affiliate in Adirondack. He would go on to coach the Flames top prospects in Stockton before becoming an assistant coach with the Flames in 2018. In four years as an AHL bench boss, Huska posted a 135-118-27 record while fostering the development of several future NHL players including current Flames Rasmus Andersson, Andrew Mangiapane, and Oliver Kylington.
The 47-year-old was drafted in the third round 76th overall in the 1993 NHL Draft by the Chicago Blackhawks and played three years with the Hawks IHL team in Indianapolis before making his NHL debut on May 1, 1995, against Calgary. He completed his playing career in 2000 following his final two seasons with the Islanders and Coyotes AHL clubs.
Ryan and his wife Denise have two daughters Hanna and Olivia and son Luke and have called Calgary home since 2014.
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